There is no safe way to view a pumping human heart, but BU scientists are helping create the next best thing: a tiny replica of a living heart to let scientists test new disease treatments. Addressing complex challenges like this requires a convergent approach that draws on expertise across multiple disciplines to create a solution with real, transformative impact for our health and well-being. At Boston University, our researchers are working together to advance human health at every stage of life, developing new strategies to prevent disease, improve care, reduce health inequities, and enhance our quality of life.
Explore the University-wide centers and research hubs supporting this theme, including the Biological Design Center, Center for Brain Recovery, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroimaging Center, Initiative on Cities, Nanotechnology Innovation Center, Neurophotonics Center, Photonics Center, and Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.
At the heart of BU's investment in convergent research is a cluster hiring program designed to strengthen connections across disciplines and build new areas of research excellence. The Advancing Brain and Cognitive Health cluster hire brings together faculty across biology, biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, health sciences, mathematics and statistics, and psychological and brain sciences to pursue transformative research questions at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and engineering.
At the heart of BU's investment in convergent research is a cluster hiring program designed to strengthen connections across disciplines and build new areas of research excellence. The Future of Healthy Aging cluster hire brings together faculty from anthropology, biology, business, communications, epidemiology, law, physical therapy, sociology, and surgery to pursue transformative research questions about how we age and the biological, cultural, environmental, technological, legal, and social factors that shape healthy aging as well as the structural factors that prevent some from aging well.
On Thursday, December 3, this installment of the Research on Tap series will bring together faculty from several BU schools and colleges for a conversation on the opportunities and operational realities facing global health research enterprise. It will explore how research universities can better support, sustain, and scale these kinds of partnerships.
On Wednesday, October 28, this installment of the Research on Tap series will bring together BU researchers who study injury and stress, systems that deliver care, and the social conditions of recovery that shape health following trauma.
On Tuesday, September 29, this installment of the Research on Tap series will examine how policy choices and development patterns shape both environmental outcomes and human well-being over time, bringing together researchers working across terrestrial, coastal, and human systems to explore the intersection of ecological systems and social life in cities.
BU researchers are mixing neuroscience, photonics, and engineering to help people with hearing loss pick out sounds in noisy spaces.
A society of neuroscience experts are creating a dedicated hub of resources for fNIRS research.
Biomedical engineer Miguel Jimenez blends engineering fields to develop devices to monitor environmental and human health
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health program support will also spur investment in early-career faculty